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We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We …
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According to the rent-extraction hypothesis, weak corporate governance allows entrenched CEOs to capture the pay-setting process and benefit from events outside of their controlget paid for luck. In this paper, I find that the independence requirement imposed on boards of directors by the...
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This M.A. dissertation presents a study of the influence of financial distress on CEO compensation in the United States. It focuses on the four main components of executive compensation: salary, bonus, restricted stock and stock options. More specifically, I apply linear regression to panel data...
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relatively poor accounting quality are more likely to adopt clawbacks; (3) clawbacks improve investor perception of M&A quality …
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incentives of US managers to adopt riskier business policies. Specifically, based on the agency problems between shareholders and … managers and between shareholders and creditors, a research framework is developed to identify the influence of low interest … rates on managers’ risk-taking incentives proxied by the sensitivity of executive compensation to stock return volatility …
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This study examines how globalization of corporate governance practices influence the risk of European CEOs being dismissed. We argue that the harsh monitoring of the American corporate governance system spills over to the rest of the world as a result of this globalization. We focus on direct...
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The debate about the compensation of executives and directors is a discussion about incentives and agency costs. This article analyzes basic tools to reduce agency costs and also assesses the ongoing debate about the future regulation of the compensation of executives and directors. It draws...
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